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5,171 applications for credible fear asylum request. 2016, 91,786. an increase of 1675%. do you think there is any fraud there, dinesh? >> i would like to step back for a moment and look at this a slightly different way. the founders looked at america as a kind of moral community. a group of people who have a common set of values and a common destiny. almost in some senses like an extended family. if someone came banging on your door and said listen, i am in fear because i'm being chased by a gang, i would submit that the ordinary person would be a little skeptical before giving them "asylum,"...

5,171 applications for credible fear asylum request. 2016, 91,786. an increase of 1675%. do you think there is any fraud there, dinesh? >> i would like to step back for a moment and look at this a slightly different way. the founders looked at america as a kind of moral community. a group of people who have a common set of values and a common destiny. almost in some senses like an extended family. if someone came banging on your door and said listen, i am in fear because i'm being chased by a gang, i would submit that the ordinary person would be a little skeptical before giving them "asylum,"...

Deadline of t deadline. and that's the key word, "eligible" to this administration. that means 463 mieg grant parents may have already been deported. the aclu claims they don't know where many of the parents of those children are. nbc news has obtained exclusive audio from an immigration hearing at a texas detention center earlier this month. listen to this. it's a mom whose asylum request was denied begging a judge to be reunited with her young daughter. >> ma'am, i do wish you good luck in your home country. that is all. >> and my daughter? >> where is your daughter, ma'am? >> new york. >> w...

Victoria di francesco also joins us. and the director of the aclu immigrants rights project. gabe, tell me about that family. i believe you have some new tape from a family involved. >> reporter: hi, andrea, good afternoon. that woman you just heard from, she had -- that was part of an incredible fear hearing. that's the first test for asylum. as you heard there, the judge denied the asylum request. in woman had a lot of questions about how she would be reunited with her child. we heard from her attorney that she now has been reunited but she is still in family detention. we did hear from anot...

Every asylum request, we can't. it is a hard issue to deal with. but the remedy cannot include putting kids in cages, taking them from their parents. they're totally innocent. so the president knows that. it is a tough problem. but to use words like invade, infest, vermin, rapists, all of that, where it is desperate mothers by and large with a son or daughter, just makes it much more difficult to solve what is a very challenging problem. >> what the trump administration is now asking a federal judge to do is to decide that children can be held with their parents in these facilities, these dete...